A Wolf at the Door movie storyline. When the girl Clara is kidnapped from the daycare, her mother Sylvia goes to the police station to report the missing child. The chief inspector interrogates Sylvia and learns that her husband Bernardo is an enforcer in a bus company. The low-middle class couple does not have any possessions; therefore they do not believe their daughter has been abducted for money.
Then he interrogates the owner of the daycare that explains that she received a phone call from Sylvia telling to deliver Clara to a neighbor that the girl knew very well. When Bernardo arrives, he accuses the twenty-two year-old Rosa of kidnapping his daughter. He discloses to the Chief Inspector that Rosa and he had had a love affair and the police detectives bring Rosa to the station to be interrogated and she tells that a woman forced her to kidnap the girl. As long as the interrogation goes on, it is disclosed a dark story of betrayal, jealousy and revenge.
A Wolf at the Door (Portuguese: O Lobo Atrás da Por) is a 2013 Brazilian thriller drama film written and directed by Fernando Coimbra, in his feature directorial debut. The film follows the story of Sylvia and Bernardo, the parents of a kidnapped girl, and Rosa, Bernardo’s lover, who is suspected for the kidnapping. It is based on a real-life crime that occurred in the 1960s, where a woman named Neyde Maria Maia Lopes (The Beast of Penha) kidnapped and killed four-year-old Tania Maria Coelho de Araujo (Taninha).
The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It won the Horizontes Latinos award at the 61st San Sebastián International Film Festival.
A Wolf at the Door (2014)
O Lobo Atrás da Porta
Directed by: Fernando Coimbra
Starring: Leandra Leal, Milhem Cortaz, Fabiula Nascimento, Juliano Cazarré, Paulo Tiefenthaler, Tamara Taxman, Emiliano Queiroz, Thalita Carauta, Isabelle Ribas, Karine Teles, Gustavo Novaes
Screenplay by: Fernando Coimbra
Production Design by: Clara Machado, Patrícia Nelly
Cinematography by: Lula Carvalho
Film Editing by: Karen Akerman
Costume Design by: Valeria Stefani
Art Direction by: Tiago Marques Teixeira
Music by: Ricardo Cutz
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Strand Releasing (United States)
Release Date: September 11, 2013 (TIFF), May 29, 2014 (Brazil), October 4. 2014 (Uniteo States)
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